SW London grammar and private year 7 entry 2024.

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https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/secondary/4907226-sw-london-grammar-and-private-year-7-entry-2024

This is the previous link. Hope it works.

I agree- wish they just had emailed those who got yes to academic,

Congratulations @11plus24 and @Wondermumof4 regarding the Dulwich interview. I am curious on your ds thoughts of the exam. I see they switched from paper based, to what looks similar to the London consortium did (atom learning). Did they think the exam more difficult or similar level to the Atom mocks? I see they have sample questions on. We have not gone through them yet (I figure save them for closer to the exam). My ds is year 5 so we have some time :) Also, curious if you also applied for Alleyn's?

@Brugmansia it sounds like you have a good sense of perspective and frankly I think I need that as I’m definitely getting far too anxious about it. Wishing you and your DS the best of luck in this frankly ridiculous process.

@minipie Ahh, I had no idea about the late assessments at Emanuel, that makes a lot of sense, thank you for passing this information on.

Hi @SamPoodle123 thank you ! My DS said it was harder than atom.
was all on line except for the creative task (that was not long , 15 min )
we have done the tour of Alleyns but we did not apply. Good luck to your DS !

It sounds like half of London is waiting for that Emanuel email. I assume they have the lists by now but also need to double and triple check everything is correct before sending out 1,000+ emails. Good luck to all of us!

@swlondon24 is that 1000+ a guesstimate or do you have some inside intel? Any idea how many interviews they might do? Am rapidly scaling back my already meagre hopes.

At the exam they said over 1000 to us.....

I have had two DS's go through the Dulwich 11+. The new system is much more challenging and Atom is actually little help with some of the aspects such as the puzzles and creative comprehension. The maths and 'normal' multiple choice reading comprehensions are similar to Atom. There is a company out there that sell mock assessments which are very good but scarily challenging.
My younger DC also sat the Alleyn's assessment and declared it harder than the Sutton Grammar second round tests!
The tests are super hard but remember that all our little boys are just competing against other little boys and no one is going to get full marks on tests this difficult! Well maybe some, and good luck to them. :-)

@Eboblah there were about 200 children at the sports scholarship assessments (if you add the boys and girls who showed up) so you can imagine the total. Plus they said it as per @farfallarocks .

Super insight thanks @minipie so I imagine it really will be Friday at this rate!

What day is the academic scholarship at Hampton? Anyone had an offer that can shed light?

@LanguageTestQuery did you have an offer at the end for Dulwich ? How did you find the interview ?

First son got a place. His interview involved general questions about his interests and he was shown two pictures which he had to describe/ talk about.
We heard today that our younger son has an interview too which we’re thrilled about. It’s a fantastic school and our bright, quirky older son has absolutely blossomed there.

great ! Congrats and thank you for your reply , we really hope to get an offer 🤞🏻

Thank you! Good luck to your ds as well.

Many thanks for your feedback. It sounds like it is similar to the London Consortium exam. My dd did that and we thought she was doing the ISEB...by the time we realized they changed the exam and added this creative comprehension and math puzzle component we gave up. We thought, we prepared for the other stuff and just hope for the best for the two new sections lol. She ended up doing well. I am hoping it will be the same for my ds.

It is stressful w all the different exams. I wish there could just be one type of exam, that you could take twice (obviously w different questions, but same format) and they take the best out of the two scores :)

I had my ds do the Alleyn's mock on Atom and that was def more challenging then the other Atom assessments. Yikes. Still debating if it makes sense to apply to Alleyn's.

Feedback from dd's mates who did Alleyns this year was that is was fiendishly hard.
FH also very tough interview questions apparently.
Do we think schools are raising the bar higher and higher as everyone gets tutors and atom accounts? Where will it end?

She still has plenty of time to get better scores , so dont give up my son got better towards the end. and anyway if you really like the school you should try as you never know.

Sorry talking about your DS @SamPoodle123

DD said the VR was really hard at Alleyns - it’s usually the thing she finds easiest so must have been tough!

Is the FH you’re referring to Francis Holland SS @farfallarocks ? - my daughter did that yesterday and from what she told me it definitely sounded more full on than I might have expected

Yea sorry should have specified SS. All crossed for your dd

Does anyone know when LEH might get back with outcomes? They said Mid January which is anytime from now…

@Iffiyas we haven't heard anything yet from LEH. Website says mid-Jan, hopefully next week. If we are invited, the interviews are between 23rd -25th Jan